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Monday, April 9, 2007

Easter Sunday 2007 - Post 2

I still have much work to do before I can post many more photos. But, I would like to share these two - which was the idea of a parishioner standing in the back of the church with his young son. He had a good eye.

This is from the noon Mass, as a priest of Opus Angelorum delivers his Easter Sunday homily. Each of the pillars has a spray of yellow flowers attached to it and the row of decorated pillars, perfectly framed the shots.

Additional note on Confession Schedule for upcoming Divine Mercy Sunday: Confessions will be heard at the usual time on Saturday, so try to make it between 2:30 and 3:30, especially earlier when few people are there. On Divine Mercy Sunday - April 15, there will be Benediction following the Noon Orchestral Mass, followed by Confessions until the last is heard.

Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron

St. John of the Cross

Dark Night of the Soul (2.2:3)...

"...the devil causes many to believe in vain visionsand false prophecies; and strives to make them presumethat God and the saints are speaking with them; and they often trust their own fancy. And the devil is also accustomed, in this state, to fill them with presumption and pride, so that they become attracted by vanity and arrogance, and allow themselves to be seen engaging in outward acts which appear holy, such as raptures and other manifestations. Thus they become bold with God, and lose holy fear, which is the key and the custodian of all the virtues; and in some of these souls so many are the falsehoods and deceits which tend to multiply, and so inveterate do they grow, that it is very doubtful if such souls will return to the pure road of virtue and true spirituality."